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All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

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The Sun, the planets, and all the other flotsam and jetsam that constitute the solar system are so insignificant that we can consider the entire mass a point in space. No matter where you might ...

In Versant Power’s territory, which includes Maine’s most rural and sparsely populated northern counties, some solar farms produce power connected to a distribution system rather than the grid ...

UFOs came to Washington (again), while NASA launched a new spacecraft to hunt for potential aliens in the solar system ... Take our year-end quiz to find out if you deserve a place among the ...

1 This year’s astronomy story of the year was the total solar eclipse of April 8, which carved a path across central and eastern Canada that encompassed Niagara Falls, Montreal and Fredericton ...

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New research is offering unprecedented insights into the icy planetesimals of the early solar system, such as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. Planetesimals are small, celestial objects ...